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Arts & Humanities: Genealogy: “Question: Obituary bettina schmidt lee county alabama?” plus 5 more

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Arts & Humanities: Genealogy: “Question: Obituary bettina schmidt lee county alabama?” plus 5 more

Question: Obituary bettina schmidt lee county alabama?

Posted: 08 Mar 2016 03:18 PM PST

SCHMIDT, BETTINA
Sunday, March 6, 2016 12:00 am

Bettina Schmidt died in Auburn, Alabama, on March 2, 2016. She was born in Essen, Germany, on September 9, 1962. Bettina received a Master's degree in Mathematics from Aachen University, Germany, in 1988. After arriving in the United States, she pursued her studies in Mathematics and received a Ph.D. from Auburn University in 1994. She has been an Associate Professor at Auburn University at Montgomery from 1994 to 2016. Bettina cared deeply about her students. She was always open to help and assist, and students would come to her home. She was very charitable towards her students and her friends in need. Bettina loved dogs and volunteered at times at the Humane Society in Auburn. She rescued many dogs which became her beloved pets. Bettina is survived by her companion of 18 years, John Hinrichsen; her mother, Jutta Behrendt; and her sister, Linda von dem Bussche nee Behrendt of Germany. She will be deeply missed by her family and friends. Donations may be made to the Lee County Humane Society in her memory . Jeffcoat-Trant Funeral Home is directing. www.jeffcoattrant.com

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Please don't forget to choose a best answer. It doesn't have to be mine. 10 points aren't much, but they tell us you read the answers and we didn't flush 8 minutes of research and/or typing down the toilet.

Question: Were there Slaves on the Mayflower?

Posted: 08 Mar 2016 02:18 PM PST

Whoever you paid to "do" your family tree was a scam artist as I am 100% sure they did not provide you with written record proof of any of your ancestors.....

The Mayflower was the ship that transported the first English Separatists.. note the word "transported" extremist religious idiots who couldn't live without forcing their extreme beliefs on normal people in England, so they were shipped out/ cast out/transported......... they reinvented themselves on route and became "pilgrims"...there were no slaves on board the English threw the religious nutters out of the country in the hope the shop sank ( nearly did) nor allow them slaves

Question: Why do jews have germanic last names?

Posted: 08 Mar 2016 11:19 AM PST

Jews took them at the same time everyone else in Europe did which is the first part of the last millennium. They weren't started originally to identify a man as a member of a family but just to better identify him on records, frequently for taxation. Too many men with the same given name in the same town or village and they had to have a more efficient way to sort them out. When they got through legitimate sons of the same man could have wound up with a different surname and still each could have shared his with others with no known relationship.

A lot of names in the U.S. are viewed as Jewish as a large portion of immigrants with certain names were Jewish while back in their country of origin the same name was used by Christians, Jews and village atheist. There are only about 3 exclusive Jewish names and still a person with one of those names could not be considered Jewish by other Jews.

You have to understand, the Talmud defines a Jew by the mother, not the father. If a person only has a Jewish father the only way they will consider that person Jewish is to go through the rite of conversion. Some liberal groups will consider a person Jewish with only a Jewish father if that person identifies as a Jew.

Conservative and Orthodox Jews state a person is a Jew if they have a Jewish mother even though he/she was not raised Jewish and is not of the Jewish faith. Reform Jews see it differently.

However, since surnames, in western countries that is, traditionally come from the father a man could be born a McGillicuddy and be Jewish by birth. Names ending in "stein" "stine" "berg" "burg" "sky" "ski" are not exclusively Jewish names at all. Goldberg is not an exclusive Jewish name.

Here is a great link:

http://www.jewfaq.org/whoisjew.htm

Another thing that can throw people off is some surnames are patronymic. They were based on the father's given name. So a person named Jacobs might be Jewish but might not as a lot of Christians give their children Old Testament name. So a person might be named Jacobs and not have any Jewish ancestry at all.

Question: If my last name is different than my father's last name, does that mean it's not a surname?

Posted: 08 Mar 2016 07:27 AM PST

No. If your nose doesn't look like his, it's still your nose, too.

In the USA and most nations that follow the western European custom, surname, family name and last name are all the same thing. If your mother is Mary Jones and your father is John Smith, your surname could be Jones-Smith. Is that what you mean? Otherwise, you could be adopted, or he could be your step-father. 90% of the time, your surname will be Smith, though.

Most people have just one word as a surname. Some have two; "St. John", for instance. I worked with a man whose surname was "De La Vega", which caused constant confusion.

Theoretically, if Mary Jones-Smith married John Miller-Johnson, their son Ralph could be named Ralph Jones-Smith-Miller-Johnson or Ralph Miller-Johnson-Jones-Smith, but that would be awkward.

Question: Here in Ireland family names (surnames) have a crest (like a coat of arms but not a coat of arms), is it the same in Russia?

Posted: 08 Mar 2016 04:53 AM PST

You're wrong from the start, in just about every way.

1. In Ireland as everywhere else, a crest is a single element of a coat of arms. If you don't have a coat of arms you cannot possibly have a crest, because crests do not exist independently.

2. In Ireland coats of arms do *not* belong to surnames. Unlike anywhere else in Western Europe, arms belong to septs (i.e. clans, more or less); any legit member of a given sept may display the arms of that sept. But people with the same surname do not necessarily belong to the same sept.

3. Heraldry is not native to Russia, but from the late 17th century was adopted to a certain extent by the highest nobility in imitation of Western Europe (just as they adopted Western clothes and the French language). Only this tiny topmost class of society ever had coats of arms. So unless your wife is by descent a princess, countess or baroness, her family didn't have one.

4. Local government coats of arms (i.e. towns, provinces, counties, etc) are the property of that government body; they do not belong to individuals who happen to come from there.

Of course nobody can actually stop you taking bits of some oblast's arms and bits of some Irish sept's arms, mashing them up together and sticking the result on your wall. Just don't kid yourself that this is anything more than a fantasy.

Question: I administered my moms AncestryDNA test and her results are in but we can t see her percentages. Anyone know how we can access them?

Posted: 07 Mar 2016 03:05 PM PST

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